Exam 7: Alternative Tourism

Low impact nature tourism which contributes to the maintenance of species and habitats either directly through a contribution to conservation and / or indirectly by providing enough revenue to the local community sufficient for local people to value, and therefore protect, their wildlife heritage area as a source of income

In alternative tourism, profit for local businesses is frowned upon.

Ensuring that the revenue earned from the product or service is equitably shared between the producer, the supply chain, and the end seller

The principle that the environment and its resources should be used by humans and managed in a responsible manner

Which of the following describes a process that supports only the initial stages of building or creating capacities and assumes that there are no existing capacities at the start.

Businesses, in general, possess a short-term perspective, especially when there are outside investors seeking a quick return on their investment.

In relation to local culture, sustainable tourism should do which of the following?

Incorporating local stories into the tourism narrative helps to:

Securing community development funds is only important when a community does not have a multinational corporation to fund development initiatives.

The process of the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights

Commodification is a positive side effect of cultural tourism.

Alternative tourism should do which of the following?

The type of alternative tourism established will depend on the specific resources available.

A traveler's engagement with a country or region's culture, specifically the lifestyle of the people in those geographical areas, the history of those people, their art, architecture, religion(s), and other elements that helped shape their way of life

Specific tourism products that are tailored to meet the needs of a particular audience or market segment

Hunting and angling are a types of rural tourism.

In order to realize the tourism industry's potential for sustainable development, governments and the private sector must work as leaders over the local community.

Carrying capacity is extremely hard to measure because:

A collaborative approach to tourism in which community members exercise control through active participation in the appraisal, development, management and/or ownership of enterprises that delivers net socio-economic benefits to community members, conserves natural and cultural resources and adds value to the experiences of local and foreign visitors

All nature-based tourism is a form of alternative tourism.